New York City witnessed unparalleled growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, its population rising from thirty thousand people to nearly a million in a matter of decades. Feeding Gotham looks at how America's first metropolis grappled with the challenge of provisioning its inhabitants. It tells the story of how access to food, once a public good, became a private matter left to free and unregulated markets--and of the profound consequences this had for American living standards and urban development.
Taking readers from the early republic to the Civil War, Gergely...
New York City witnessed unparalleled growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, its population rising from thirty thousand people to nearl...
